The North West Argentinian colour palette

Humahuaca crowns our halt in northwest Argentina. It is with not doubt a knockoutin Ruta 40. These perfectly distinct layers of stone offer a geological treasure that one has to see to believe. This curiosity is enchanteress.

Sedimentation combined with the time passing by, follow a sheet music with its lot of semibreve, quaver, and crochet.

By the by, we don’t sigh in front of the Humahuaca Quebrada, we hold our breath, which is precious at 4350 meters of high.Colors, patterns and irregularity were already familiar to us when we discovered the Argentinian weave of poncho.

El camino a los artesanos

Under the various arbours, made of cactus wood, that marked out this little section of Ruta 40, we found each time an old loom.

Each impairment proves the object’s value. Here is the work of a hand that is not afraid by the idea of slowness. With perfect gesture, it creates the object of an ancestral tradition. This is Art of Poncho.

The Argentinian from the Calchaquies Valley is proud of his name, because hère, handicraft is a familial matter. And when you offer a poncho to the Pope, you are proud, that is all.